Schmitz's cycad

Common Name - SCHMITZ'S CYCAD, Listed on CITES Appendix I. Honoring Andre Schmitz, collector. Discovered in 1955 by Scmitz, who found a single male plant plant. A single female plant of the same species was found 10 years later, and the species was formally described in 1969 by Belgian botanist - Malaisse. Subsequent field studies in Zambia and DR Congo have shown this to be a widesread and common species. More